ghost of miles

I’m not Jsngry, but I’ll bet Jsngry approves this message:

I could be misremembering this, but I think at some point Mosaic was contemplating such a set.

Just saw this via a Facebook post from trumpeter and IU jazz faculty member John Raymond. Sad and shocking news.

One more go-around this past week for Jazz Women of the 1990s.

Welcome aboard!

Just now digging into this series, via a gift of the Music Masters box set that covers volumes 1-5 (six CDs in all). Only on the second disc, but it's already apparent that Loren Schoenberg did a great job of selecting material for inclusion. I've ordered the second box, even though I may already have some of it in the separate 1957-1964 big band set that was reissued several years ago... listening to this also makes me wonder if the Goodman Savory material, which documents a much earlier period, will ever see the light of day. From what I've heard, the Goodman estate continues to make that scenario problematic.

A friend gave me this box set yesterday, and wow—so good! Quite a treasure trove of later Benny Goodman. I’ve been aware of the Yale Archive releases for many years, but had picked up only the one that covers big band recordings from 1957-1964. I’m just one disc into this collection and have already ordered its V. 6-10 followup:

Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington's Early Black-Pride Music re-aired this past week and remains archived for online listening.

I was just thinking about him yesterday because his name appeared in my Facebook account's upcoming-birthdays list. Bought a number of CDs from him when he was running his business and had some great email exchanges... he was also very supportive of Night Lights. Such a great guy, so sorry to learn of this news.

Bumping this after referring to the theme song in another thread, just to mention that the complete series did eventually come out on DVD via Shout Factory, God bless 'em: Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series ... I'm only a few episodes into season 1, but it's holding up nicely in almost all respects. The series debuted when I was a teenager, and I, my dad, and my mom (who was a prosecutor) all became instant fans. Didn't see it as regularly after I left for college (no cable TV in the dorms in those primitive years! and beyond my meager student means when I moved to an off-campus apartment), so there's a lot I missed from the show's final years.

Although I'd agree that TV theme songs from the 1980s and 90s aren't generally as memorable as those from the 1970s, Mike Post is A-OK by me on the strength of Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues alone:

I’ve been revisiting some late-1970s sitcoms lately—Taxi, One Day At A Time, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Soap, primarily—and am being reminded of how many great theme songs there were for shows back then—catchy one-minute snippets that established a very specific mood and became a sort of Pavlovian cue for spending half an hour in a favorite fictional setting. In addition to the programs above, here are some other notable show themes—some instrumental, some with lyrics: The Rockford Files Sanford and Son Alice The Six Million Dollar Man (hello, Oliver Nelson!) Good Times Happy Days All In The Family Barney Miller Baretta S.W.A.T. ... gotta be more, what am I forgetting?

Just saw that. My introduction to his music came all the way back in 1988 when I bought the Screaming Trees’ Invisible Lantern, which still sounded great when I spun it again about a year ago or so.

Somehow never got around to posting the Night Lights centennial tribute in this thread: To Be Somebody: Hazel Scott

The second book of Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War trilogy—an excellent counterpart to Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy, which covers the American war effort in the European Theater:

Disc 1, the music for The Manchurian Candidate:

Agharta's the one that really blows me away re Cosey.

Hear, hear!

Thanks for the good news!

Up for Joe Wilder's centennial today.

Have we ever had a thread about jazz/hip hop crossover music on the board or before? Or just on jazz and hip hop in general? My initial searches didn't turn up one... I think it'd be an interesting topic.

So grateful for all of the Pacific Jazz sets that Mosaic managed to release (not sure if we'll ever see another one?). Right now, revisiting one of my favorite Resonance Wes Montgomery releases:

We re-aired The Teacher: Billy Taylor this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.